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by Pandabob 7y ago
I might be wrong here, but I think the biggest reason for this is that Europe hasn't really produced a tech company in the past ~25 years, with revenues (and profits) amounting to anything close to those of the FAANGs. OTOH, there is t
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I'm aware of the priming studies being debunked, but what else?
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Yes but didn't Amazon IPO in 1999 and most of the money they've spent into building the company has been actual revenue, not VC or debt money? Seems like that's markedly different from what companies like Uber have been doing
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I remember Keith Rabois describing this to be key to Peter Thiels management philosophy at PayPal: "So I am going to argue that you need to spend a lot of time focusing on people. This is something I learned from Peter Thiel actually.
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Here's the secret agent ad by Sun which Feldman mentions [1]. These Sun ads are really quite entertaining and the production values have had to been through the roof at the time [2][3][4]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Indie hackers is definitely great for this kind of content. I'd also recommend "Startups for the rest of us" [1], "The art of product" [2], Patrick Mckenzies blog [3] and Stripe Atlas guides [4]. The first three res
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by Pandabob 7y ago
It's still a very solid career choice and probably will be for the foreseeable future. AFAIK, Thiel has a thesis about how most innovation in the past 50 years has come in the world of bits and not atoms. This seems unlikely to change
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by Pandabob 7y ago
It's my understanding (and experience) that Snapchat filters are even more impressive and that Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has pretty much bet the company on AR [1]. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/22/209
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by Pandabob 7y ago
A couple of years ago a friend mentioned a now infamous quote by the Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai, who, when asked by Henry Kissinger what he thought about the French Revolution, said that it's "too early to tell"[1]. Ap
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by Pandabob 7y ago
My plan is to read about the french revolution and as such I was thinking about reading the books recommended by Five Books[1]: 1. Ancien Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville 2. Interpreting the French Revolution by François F
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Annie Duke's "Thinking in bets" was pretty good as was Rory Sutherland's "Alchemy". "Thinking in bets" got me thinking about playing more imperfect information games. The obvious choice would be poker
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by Pandabob 7y ago
> Examining the lives of successful entrepreneurs teaches us very little. We would do far better to analyze the causes of failure, then act accordingly. Even better would be learning from both failures and successes. Any recommendations
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by Pandabob 7y ago
This is a great point. I've slowly started to believe in the planning fallacy [1] and that humans just aren't that good at estimating the time that it takes to do a given task. The freakonomics podcast had a good episode on the to
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by Pandabob 7y ago
1) I thought that getting clients would be relatively easy, but getting new ones is more about trust than anything else. I moved back to my home town after spending two years away and noticed that my professional network there was quite poo
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by Pandabob 7y ago
The best management book I read this year was "The Making of a Manager" by Julie Zhou [1]. The book is concise, clearly written and actionable. It's specifically written for first time managers and the author is a design lead
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielssen have a pretty interesting tutorial online about Quantum Computing https://quantum.country/qcvc
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by Pandabob 7y ago
This looks neat. Does anyone have experience with using type hints and mypy with Django? Any gotchas?
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The largest known structure in the universe: Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I'm a big fan of Babish! I'd also recommend the Bon Appetit Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom and Chef John from Food Wishes https://www.youtube.com/user/foodw
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I second this as a worthy skill to have, but there aren't many dishes you can become really good at making just in an hour. At least anecdotally, just the process of learning to make a great french omelette is pretty brutal.
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by Pandabob 7y ago
On second thought, at least on GCP I should be able to put the pipfiles into .gcloudignore and just update the requirements.txt file with each new commit using git hooks, build scripts or a ci/cd tool.
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Isn't this what Pipenv does? What has been a downer for me is that many of the cloud providers do not support pipfiles in their serverless app services (Elastic Beanstalk, App Engine etc.)
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by Pandabob 7y ago
TinyURL'd the link: https://tinyurl.com/ycp2cv5s
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I've done some software projects in the construction industry, and the consensus I've gathered speaking with people working there is that the productivity growth in general has been abysmal in the industry. Granted, the issues the
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Ask HN: Industries with low productivity growth that aren't highly regulated?
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I don't know the income tax in Germany/Berlin, but in Sweden/Stockholm it's roughly 30% for (upper) middle-class folks. VAT is quite high and food in general is a lot more expensive than in Berlin.
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I'd also encourage you to consider Stockholm. The market is smaller than Berlin, and the CoL is higher, but the tech scene is extremely vibrant and lots of Swedish tech companies have good connections to the US. Also, you don't re
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Excellent way to reallocate some of that record breaking revenue they just announced.
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I'd be interested in hearing HN's experiences about Azure and how it stacks up against AWS and GCP. What I've been seeing in enterprise settings is that companies that are already using Windows Virtual Desktops feel more com
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by Pandabob 7y ago
I've been a fairly heavy user of Audible until this spring when I started to go back to regular, physical books. If you're reading books with lot's of graphs or pictures in them, the Audible experience is kind of subpar. Also

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